310 research outputs found
Digital Technologies in Sport, Exercise and Physical Education:A Social Science Qualitative Perspective
No full textResearch focused on digital technologies in sport, exercise and physical education has proliferated in the last decade. This chapter summarises the current literature on digital technologies in sport, exercise and physical education, from a social science perspective, and by drawing on the disciplinary areas of sociology, psychology and pedagogy. The aims and objectives of the handbook are then introduced, and summaries are provided of the sections of the handbook and individual chapters. In the concluding sections, an emphasis is placed on how the chapters in the handbook, collectively, represent a mature field of study and practice. The chapters cover all stages of the research process, including theory, methods, ethics, and presentation, that provides researchers with a ‘toolkit’ for moving through conceptualisation, enactment, interpretation and translation. In practice, a wide variety of established and emerging technologies are being used across sport, exercise and physical education settings, with wide variety in the applied uses of tech. It would appear, therefore, there is an emerging ecosystem for research and practice on digital technologies in sport, exercise and physical education. This signals the need to sustain momentum in this broad multi-disciplinary field and support further growth and development. <br/
Research ethics and digital platforms:Finding firm ground in shifting worlds
No full textThis chapter discusses the ethics of doing research using digital technologies. As three researchers who have spent most of our academic careers researching various forms of physical activity and moving bodies through projects with ‘online’ elements, we provide examples of the ethically complex situations we have had to navigate. We discuss how the types of ethical decisions we have had to address have evolved over time and reflect different eras of Web culture, changing understandings of what counts as data, and expanding approaches to data collection. We explore privacy and particularly the ‘reasonable expectation’ of privacy that underpins so many ethics boards policies around what digital data we can use. Moreover, we address how expectations of privacy are fluid and some of the emerging conversations around the right to be included (including how excluding particular groups to protect their privacy can reinforce marginalization) and the right to be forgotten. The ephemerality of digital content is addressed when we ask readers to consider the ethical implications of giving permanence to data through our research practices. Relationality is the concept we turn to describe how all ethical decisions need to be ‘situated’ within the contexts of our own personal and professional relations including our relationships with the communities and cultures we study, the academic institutions where we do our work, and our own histories with the digital platforms. Finally, we conclude the chapter by zooming out and considering ‘platform politics.’ This future-looking section attends to the current geopolitical moment and is where address what we believe to be the ethical questions on the horizon including the use of AI in qualitative research, and the polarization and politicisation of social media
Vicky Henderson
No full textthis paper. The second author is supported by an Advanced Fellowship from the EPSRC. The third author acknowledges partial financial support from DAAD, EPSRC and KW
Bayesian mixture estimation for perceptual grouping
No full textPerceptual grouping is the process by which a set of image elements is divided into distinct “objects” or components. In this dissertation I propose a Bayesian framework for understanding perceptual grouping, in which the goal of the computation is to estimate the organization that best explains the observed configuration of image elements. I formalize the problem of perceptual grouping as a mixture estimation problem, where it is assumed that the configuration of elements is generated by a set of distinct components (or ”objects”), whose underlying parameters one seeks to estimate. In the first part of this dissertation I will propose a simplified version of the framework and show how it can be used to estimate the number of objects, more specifically clusters of dots, present in the image. Across two experiments I show how the model gives an accurate and quantitatively precise account of subjects’ numerosity judgments, while at the same time outperforming more standard accounts for dot clustering. In the second part of the dissertation this simplified framework is expanded to estimate a hierarchical representation of the image elements. This framework can easily be adjusted to different subproblems of perceptual grouping. Here I will show how an instantiation of our framework for contour integration, part decomposition, and shape completion can account for several key perceptual phenomena and previously collected human subject data.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Vicky Froye
Confronting Existential Dilemmas: An In-Depth Analysis of Vicky Cristina Barcelona through the Philosophies of Sartre and Camus
Full text linkIn this paper, the author analyzes Woody Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona through an existential lens, drawing parallels with the philosophies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. The characters Vicky, Cristina, Juan Antonio, and María Elena embody existential dilemmas, exploring themes of individual freedom, choice, and the search for meaning in an indifferent world. The analysis delves into Sartrean concepts of bad faith and radical freedom, contrasting Vicky's societal conformity with Cristina's Camusian pursuit of meaning through experiences. The characters' interactions reflect the unpredictable and absurd nature of human relationships, echoing Camus's exploration of the absurdity of emotions. The non-linear narrative structure aligns with existential themes, emphasizing life's unpredictability, and Barcelona serves as a metaphor for the complexities of existence. Woody Allen's narrative and artistic choices invite viewers to reflect on the intricate interplay of love, desire, and chance encounters in the context of existentialism
From Pausanias to Baedeker and Trip Advisor: Textual proto-tourism and the engendering of tourism distribution channels
Full text linkThe key aim of this article is to provide an interdisciplinary look at tourism and its diachronic textual threads bequeathed by the ‘proto-tourist’ texts of the Greek travel author Pausanias. Using the periegetic, travel texts from his voluminous Description of Greece (2nd century CE) as a springboard for our presentation, we intend to show how the textual strategies employed by Pausanias have been received and still remain at the core of contemporary series of travel guides first authored by Karl Baedeker (in the 19th century). After Baedeker, Pausanias’ textual travel tropes, as we will show, still inform the epistemology of modern-day tourism; the interaction of travel texts with travel information and distribution channels produces generic hybrids, and the ancient Greek travel authors have paved the way for the construction of networks, digital storytelling and global tourist platforms
A Holding Space
Full text linkVicky Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher and Professor in Site Dance at the University of Chichester,
UK. Her research explores site dance and corporeal engagements with space, place and lived
environments. Since 2004 she has presented site dance in a range of sites including basements,
woodlands and beaches. She is co-author of (Re) Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Themes (2019) with
Melanie Kloetzel and Karen Barbour, and editor of Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
(Routledge, 2015). Her monograph Site, Dance and Body: Movement, Materials and Corporeal Engagement was
published by Palgrave in 2021
The real costs of Open Source Sustainability
No full textIn 2016 Nadia Eghbal released "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure," which shines a light on how few people maintain the software that underpins a large amount of the internet and the services that run on it.
The software world has rallied around Open Source Sustainability. Going with what they know, folks mostly focus on paying FOSS developers. Funding drives were funded. Foundations were founded. Startups started up. Venture capitalists ventured that capital.
Money isn't the only part of sustainable FOSS projects. Sustainability is a multi-faceted concept that can't work if people focus on only one of its many elements.
This talk will:
Review literature around the concept of sustainability
Propose a definition that more accurately details what "sustainable" means to FOSS
Provide tips for starting with your FOSS sustainability efforts
About the speaker
VM (aka Vicky) spent most of her twenty-plus years in the tech industry leading software development departments and teams, providing technical management and leadership consulting for small and medium businesses, and helping companies understand, use, release, and contribute to free and open source software in a way that's good for both their bottom line and for the community. Now, as the Director of Open Source Strategy for Juniper Networks, she leverages her nearly 30 years of free and open source software experience and a strong business background to help Juniper be successful through free and open source software.
She is the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the first and only book to detail how to contribute to free and open source software projects. The book is published by The Pragmatic Programmers and is now available at https://fossforge.com.
Vicky has been a moderator and author for opensource.com, an author for Linux Journal, the Vice President of the Open Source Initiative, and is a frequent and popular speaker at free/open source conferences and events. She's the proud winner of the Perl White Camel Award (2014), the O’Reilly Open Source Award (2016), and two Opensource.com Moderator's Choice Awards (2018, 2019). She blogs about free/open source, business, and technical management at {anonymous => 'hash'};.</p
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